Liquid-barrel.



No. 643,743. Patented Feb. 20, I900..

C. B. HARRIS.

LIQUID BARREL.

(Application filed Aug. 18, 1898. Reneived July 25, 1899.)

(No Model.

INVENTOR W/ TNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT QFFTCE.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

LIQUID-BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,743, dated February 20, 1900.

Application filed August 18, 1898. Renewed July 25, 1899. Serial No. 725,097. (No model.

To aZZ whmn, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES R. HARRIS, a resident of WVilliamsport; in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Barrels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in liquid-barrels, one object of the invention being to construct a barrel that Will be strong, durable, and air-tight.

A further object is to provide a metallic barrel with removable combined spigot and bung.

A further object is to provide a barrel that will be comparatively cheap to manufacture, neat in appearance, and which will be most serviceable when in use.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in perspective of my improved barrel. Fig. 2 is a view of the sections before they are put together. Fig. 3 is an end view. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views; and Fig. 7 is a view of a modification.

My improved barrel comprises two halves or sections 1 2, preferably stamped or drawn from sheet-steel and corrugated longitudinally, as shown at 3, whereby to give the barrel greater strength. The sections 1 2 are joined, as shown at 4:, by depressing or expanding one of the sections for a given space approximately the thickness of the metal. The sections are then telescoped the required distance and the two sections rigidly joined by electric welding or electric brazing. This makes a very secure fastening, and the package when welded or brazed in this manner is practically one seamless drum.

Near one end of the barrel an opening 5 is provided and the metal around said opening depressed and provided with screw-threads 6, as shown, adapted to mesh'with threads on my improved compound spigot and hung 7, which is made with an enlarged portion 8,

widest at its central portion and tapering forward and rearward from the central portion and provided with screw-threads on each inclined portion, thus permitting the spigot 9,

in Fig. 7. In this form of my invention I cut I out a section of the barrel and depress the metal around the opening, as shown at 10. A conical section 11, having a flange 12, which is brazed to the depressed portion 10 or secured thereto by other approved means, projects into the barrel through said opening and is provided internally with screw-threads for the reception of the threaded bung.

It will be seen that my improved spigot and bung may be used in the sideof the barrel or at one end or in both places, for I do not wish to limit myself to any particular location of this device. It will also be seen that when the spigot is inserted into the barrel and used as a hung it will be beneath the surface of the barrel, and hence out of danger to damage in shipment.

The ends of the enlarged portion of the spigot and bung are made angular, as shown at a-,whereby to permit the same to be grasped by a wrench and turned to tighten and loosen the same.

The ends of my improved barrel may be provided with any desired corrugations for purposes of strength and ornamentation, and various changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A barrel made in telescoping sections of sheet-steel welded together, said sections having longitudinal corrugations extending from points inwardly removed from the heads of the barrel to the inner telescoping extremities of said sections, the corrugations of one section alining and communicating with the corrugations of the adjacent telescoping section.

2. A barrel made in two sections of drawn sheet-steel, said sections telescoping at their meeting edges and electrically welded together, each section having longitudinal communicating corrugations, substantially as set forth.

3. A barrel made in two sections of sheet metal, said sections welded together at their meeting edges, and having longitudinal communicating corrugations, the corrugations in each section being tapering with their Wider ends at the meeting ends of the sections and their pointed ends terminating near the heads of the barrel.

tuting a housing for said bung, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES R. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

F. H. MCCORMICK, S. S. DECKER. 

